Simulation of a MR-PET protocol for staging of head-and-neck cancer including Dixon MR for attenuation correction

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2658-2665

  Eiber, Matthias ^a   Souvatzoglou, Michael ^a   Pickhard, Anja ^a   Loeffelbein, Denys J ^a   Knopf, Andreas ^a   Holzapfel, Konstantin ^a   Martinez Möller, Axel ^a   Nekolla, Stephan G ^a   Scherer, Elias Q ^a   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a   Beer, Ambros J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer (HNSCC); Local staging; MR PET; PET CT; Simulation; Whole body attenuation correction

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; WHOLE BODY MRI; WHOLE BODY PET; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84865257591     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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